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White Mountain Main Victim Of Arizona Wildfire

(posted June 24, 2002)

If you are eyeing a hunt in Colorado or Arizona this fall, you
are probably following the fires out that way as closely as we are.
There is no clear picture yet of which hunts will be disrupted this
fall, but you can count on problems at White Mountain Apache Indian
Reservation, famous for its elk hunts.

According to Arizona Fish & Wildlife Information Chief Joe
Janisch, 80 percent of the land burned in Arizona at this writing
is reservation property. Moreover, both fires originated on the
reservation. Estimates of the number of reservation acres already
scorched by the flames run as high as 244,000.

We tried this afternoon to contact the Indian Reservation for more
details on the damage and how it might affect hunts for this season
but found no one in authority was currently available. "They
are all out fighting the fire," we were told.

As for possible impacts outside the reservation, there is no telling
which units (if any) will be closed, but clear candidates are units
in the Pinetop Region - specifically, units 1, 2A, 2B, 2C, 3A, 3B,
3C, 4A, 4B, 25, 26 and 27. Hunters who applied for those units as
their first choice could find themselves rolled over to their second
and third choices, Janisch told The Hunting Report this afternoon.
He quickly went on to add that it was far too early to be specific
about hunt units. There were even contingency plans, he said, to
postpone next week's drawing of hunting permits.

We will have more details soon. - Barbara Crown, Managing Editor.

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